skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, yes, yes and yes.

I hadn't explicitly said to myself that even for a modern company OpenAI maybe has a particularly fond relationship with this Orwellian use of language to mean its opposite. I wonder if we could go so far as to say it's a defining feature of the company (and our age).
Price should be comparable to a high-quality local provider, but if that's not what you're seeing, I'd love to know that.
Using WebAssembly for Visual Studio Code Extension Development
I've come around to thinking of our modern "AI" as a lossy compression engine for knowledge. When you ask a question it is just decompressing a tiny portion of the knowledge and displaying it for you, sometimes with compression artifacts.

This is why I am not worried about the "AI Singularity" like some notable loudmouth technologists are. At least not with our current ML technologies.
Blockchain can be the store of public data (dump public keys of intermediate certs into blockchain), but it's not necessary, public trail log is enough to call on backdated cert issuing
It is a misconception that a JS array is "just an associated [sic] array with consecutive integers as keys". Even the early (most readable) editions of the ECMA spec have a whole set of carve-outs that belies that claim.
idk let me ask chatgpt
I said nothing of the sort
Could you point out where we could find the related info?
IIRC, this disruption lowering of barriers to new habits, with its drop in customer acquisition cost, makes pregnancy a highly valued signal for advertisers.

It was also something I appreciated about travel-as-lifestyle.
> in all likelihood it was just a weather balloon

Normal weather balloons are 20ft in diameter. This one was 200 feet in diameter and carried quite a payload - about the size of a couple of box cars. Additionally it had propellers and the ability to steer itself.

> There was no proof it was a spy balloon.

There was a preponderance of evidence - from the route of the balloon (over US strategic nuclear missle silos), to the equipment that was recovered to radio intercptions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident
The NFL was a 501c6 trade association, not a 501c3 though?
Geoffrey Hinton shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity within 30yrs
I ditched putty a long time ago. Conemu is better than putty these days (latest Windows 10 or Windows 11 if you’re unlucky enough).

I don’t like the “feel” of the new Windows Terminal “app” but it is more “modern” and “capable” (running a newer conhost under the hood).

But if you’re willing to use non-standard software then WezTerm, Alacritty, and Kitty (WSL with an XServer) are all good options.
How do you get the LLM to the point where it can draft a demand letter? I guess I'm a little confused as to how the LLM is getting the particulars of the case in order to write a relevant letter. Are you typing all that stuff in as a prompt? Are you dumping all the case file documents in as prompts and summarizing them, and then dumping the summaries into the prompt?
Don't feed the troll. If you look at this account's comments it's just inflammatory statements.
> Citing the DSM V for psychology is like trying to win a philosophical debate by using Merriam and Webster’s.

This, the whole x is/isn't a disease because how the DSM describes it debate is basically worthless. I get that it's helpful for some people to finally have a diagnosis that's recognized, but ultimately it's a spectrum of symptoms and behaviors and needing a label isn't strictly necessary for treatment and can often come with additional baggage that is less helpful.
Discussions

(405 points, 25 days ago, 343 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290448

(419 points, 10 days ago, 212 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42429606
I’d disagree, on the pretty front.

As I’ve learned it, I found it very charming and often surprisingly sweet - as an example idiomatic terms for urination and defecation are very funny: plassen (making a large pond) and klaaivormen (forming clay) - add to that a rather easy to rhyme language with a tendency towards charming and heartfelt emotional range, and the end result is quite nice.

Add lots of domestic and Caribbean regional variation in the home countries, close sister languages: Vlaams (certainly in its higher form a very different register of the language than the Hollands standard form), Afrikaans and West-Frisk, Papiamento etc and you’ve got a very cosy (gezellig!) and dynamic inter-language community!

The aggressive simplification of standard Dutch initially offended my tastes, but later I’ve found that particular discipline improved my English by accident and I’m now a fan of the sparse elegance and surprising nuance of that style …
> Nobody up to this day has been able to give a formal mathematical definition of intelligence, let alone a proof that it can be reduced to a computable function.

We can't prove the correctness of the plurality of physics. Should we call that a dead end too?
I guess to get the discussion going: the diagrams look nice, but I think the erroneous and missed connections limit their usefulness. In this example, there is a connection from "Line manager" (line.h/.c) to "Memory Allocator" (xalloc.h/.c), but it doesn't look like such a dependency exists in the codebase. Meanwhile, "Syntax Highlighter" does directly import xalloc.h, but there is no dependency shown in the diagram.
Taking a step back from the current incident which is obviously tragic, this is both a testament to how safe flying is and how hard it is to trust human judgment to tell one radar blip from another. At least with some earlier incidents there was less easy ways to check on the flight. The iron curtain was still up and ADS-B transponders weren’t invented. And yet still, here we are with planes getting shot out of the skies.
Thats not true at all, and I have the receipts to prove it. When the Russians shot down KAL007, it was preceeded by numerous phone calls and meetings. Russian pilots cannot fire missiles without remote authorization from central command. The chain of communications is well documented. KAL007 was first radar identified and fighters were scrambled at 16:33. They obtained visual contact at or around 18:05 and reported it to be a potential civilian airliner. After much discussion, an order to shoot it down was given, which they did, 21 minutes later at as 18:26, nearly 2 hours after it was detected on air defence radar.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-shot-in-the-dark-the-u...
Crypto Mogul Do Kwon to Be Extradited to US, Montenegro Says
Wow, what a shock. I cancelled my account just days before the annual renewal earlier this month. I feel for all of the small businesses this is going to hurt. The service had been getting worse for an while and the last straw was when they sent an email saying the year-end financial report would be ready by April 10th, 5 days before the tax deadline.

I’m gonna have a go with plain text accounting for the bookkeeping for a bit. Looking at what Bench was doing, and my books in general not being too complicated I think it’ll be fine, maybe better actually because I’ll have a closer eye on things. Still using a CPA to file taxes though.
> "...Then, why dont we have all of these entities take action against one of our competitors and their entire customer base, refusing to do business with any customers until they stop working with our competitor. Why don’t we ban ALL of those people from our services, and try to compel them to use our service instead?"

Mullenweg might be nuts, but most of his critics are even crazier. WPE isn't a competitor, it's a parasite. Wordpress doesn't owe anybody anything, it already gave everybody something.

If WPE wants to be a competitor, it should fork and do so. Please do it, I hate plenty of things about Wordpress, and the schema is horrific. But if the alternative is Drupal, Wordpress all day.
The title smells like "who cares". Do what you prefer, who gives a shit.
What I find interesting is current LLM’s are based primarily on written data which is already an abstraction / abbreviation of most observed phenomenon.

What happens when AI starts to send out it own drones or perhaps robots and tries to gather and train based on data it observes itself.

I think we may be closer to this point than we realize… results of AI could get quite interesting once a human level abstraction of knowledge is perhaps reduced.
Sam Altman is one of the biggest threats to humanity right now, and I’m basing that opinion on his own statements.

He believes that AGI has the potential to dismantle or destroy most of the existing world order. He believes there is some non-zero chance that even in the most capable hands it could lead to disaster. He believes OpenAI is uniquely positioned to bring AGI to the world, and he is doing everything in his power to make it possible. And let’s be honest, he’s doing it for money and power.

To me this is indefensible. Taking even the smallest chance of creating a catastrophe in order to advance your own goals is disgusting. I just hope he’s wrong and the only thing that comes of OpenAI is a bunch of wasted VC money and some cool chatbots. Because if he’s right we’re in trouble.
This is actually a philosophical question !

If you believe in functionalism (~mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of), then current AI is not a dead end.

We wouldn't need to define intelligence, just make it big and efficient enough to replicate what's currently existing would be intelligence by that definition.
The IL-2 that was hit by a Ukrainian SAM system & managed to land afterwards had a very similar damage pattern to this aircraft. You absolutely can fly for hours after an AD hit, if you get lucky.

A proximity fused AD missile with a fragmentation charge will explode to the rear of a large airliner if it’s tail-chasing, resulting in exactly the kind of damage we see in both that IL-2 and this case.
Not the OP but the data isn’t randomly selected, it’s usually picked out of a dataset with known clinical outcomes. So for example if it’s a set of images of lungs with potential tumors, the cases come with biopsies which determined whether it was cancerous or just something like scar tissue.
Everyday Language Shapes the Way We Think, Feel, and Act
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061
Right, I pointed out the competition to show that the donors are suffering actual damages from the restructuring. I don't think any of the critics here seriously expect the PBC model to fulfill the nonprofit's stated mission in any case.

This is not just an issue for the change that OpenAI is contemplating right now, but also the capped for-profit change that happened years ago. If that's found to be improper, I'm curious if that entitles the donors to any kind of compensation.

ETA: looking into this, I found the following precedent (https://www.techpolicy.press/questioning-openais-nonprofit-s...).

> A historic precedent for this is when Blue Cross' at the time nonprofit health insurers converted into for-profit enterprises. California Blue Cross converted into what's now Anthem. They tried to put a small amount of money into a nonprofit purpose. The California Attorney General intervened and they ultimately paid out about $3 billion into ongoing significant health charitable foundations in California. That's a good model for what might happen here.

So my guess is there's no compensation for any of the donors, but OpenAI may in the end be forced to give some money to an open, nonprofit AI research lab (do these exist?). IANAL so that's a low-confidence guess.

Still, that makes me so queasy. I would never donate to a YC-backed nonprofit if this is how it can go, and I say that as a YC alum.
Ironically if you explain to those talk show hosts how they are wrong about how ChatGPT learns (or doesn't learn) and use all the right arguments and proofs so that they finally concede, chances are that they too won't quite learn from that and keep repeating their previous bias next time.
yeah but how do you enforce something like that (something that could actually be done)
I’m waiting for the next seemingly inevitable object lesson: it’s insanely illegal, federally illegal, to shoot at flying objects, for what I would have hoped were obvious reasons. But it seems we’re still really rather dumb as a collective.
how many times in life do you experience AD hits from within a plane as a pilot/passenger? how would they know what to expect? it's clear that the missile hit the back of the plane (tail / fuselage), how would the pilot know whats happening besides losing hydraulics?
Very nice! Putting in an arXiv ID looks to produce many results that are much more relevant.

EDIT: You should provide this in an "information"/"about"/"how to use" dialogue or page to help people use the tool better.
>Plus of course there's significant overlap between people with ADHD and autistic people (as well as an overlap in symptoms).

I'm honestly surprised more people with ADHD and similar don't push to be considered as part of the autistic spectrum, it's seems somewhat obvious that there it too much overlap to pretend otherwise.
The Structure of Neural Embeddings
ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are all natively multimodal. They can recognise a dishwasher from an image, among many other things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwNUJ69RbwY
Wouldn't the work on interpretability would solve these concerns?
For the US Navy, admitting a friendly fire shootdown has got to be the most embarrassing thing imaginable. So, yes, I do believe them.
Why can't you trust a JavaScript programmer's word?
That's just smart career management, is what that is.
I’m not sure if wasm would be considered full process isolation but it does provide software based sandboxing. I’m referring to running quickjs in wasm by compiling it with emscripten.

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten
> In my view, our purest purpose is to be happy and help others achieve happiness. Good things drive that.

There is nothing in life and/or religion that is above that purpose. It IS the purpose, the ONLY purpose, or the person cannot claim to be acting within a form of God's religion. There are many forms of God's religion, and each person has the complete freedom to connect with God however they like; that is between them and God, periodt!

It does not matter what a person says, if they are not moving towards universal compassion and its necessary movement towards ALL others' happiness, they're just another pack animal in human clothing and capability.

We are one human race, under one Creator who goes by many Names, within one fundamental moral compass heading of complete devotion to love for ALL human beings, including ourselves as well.

> In this context, an actively benevolent deity should naturally be drawn into lives. A disconnected or antagonistic deity would not.

God never compelling religion is due to It completely honoring our freedom to ignore Its presense or helpful direction on how to become better people; that is why our free will is both our most valuable capability and our most serious responsibility. That responsibility is demonstrated by the karmic results of our use of this life to either be selfishly callous about our fellow human beings' well-being, or compassionately active in helping increase their happiness. This why dictators are NEVER happy, though they usually have all the pleasures they can desire.

Congradulations, Sir/Madam! You understand the complete purpose of religion and, therefore, LIFE! We each have our own relationship to our Creator that we must maintain and strengthen over our lifetime, and our personal happiness is the universe's feedback mechanism of inner peace that indicates what kindof crop our karma is growing. I am at your service; you have brought me great happiness today! Thank you.

"But there's still time to change the road you're on." --Stairway To Heaven
> You’d need to have builds GTK4 & QT

Isn’t this just a long about way of saying “no”? Very few frameworks let you flip a switch and build against Qt OR Gtk.
But they aren't useful for that. Terry Tao uses them to improve his ability to use poorly-documented boilerplatey things like Lean and matplotlib, but receiving advice from them‽ Frankly, if a chatbot is giving you much better advice than a rubber duck, you're either a Jack-of-all-Trades (in which case, I'd recommend better tools) or a https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.html Julius (in which case, I'd recommend staying away from anything important).

I recommend reading his interview with Matteo Wong, where he proposes the opposite: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/teren...

> With o1, you can kind of do this. I gave it a problem I knew how to solve, and I tried to guide the model. First I gave it a hint, and it ignored the hint and did something else, which didn’t work. When I explained this, it apologized and said, “Okay, I’ll do it your way.” And then it carried out my instructions reasonably well, and then it got stuck again, and I had to correct it again. The model never figured out the most clever steps. It could do all the routine things, but it was very unimaginative.

I agree with his overall vision, but transformer-based chatbots will not be the AI algorithm that supports it. Highly-automated proof assistants like Isabelle's Sledgehammer are closer (and even those are really, really crude, compared to what we could have).
If only I had this degree of focus and willingness to work so hard on all the boring bits!
> using an API like Mailgun to send the emails

Don't need that. You're already paying for (or self host) your primary email address right? That includes sending emails from that email address. Use those same login credentials to send emails to yourself, no need to contract a third party for sending a handful of emails per day, especially to yourself
Current AI should be referred to as collective intelligence since it needs to be trained and only knows what's been written
A funny story from when I worked with a geologist. On vacation, I found a cool looking rock on the beach, kind of sandy-looking, with green crystals in it. I brought it to the office and asked about it.
I heard him say, “this rock is nice,” which I thought was rather nonspecific. Seeing my confusion, he clarified: “g-n-e-i-s-s.”
The fact that they are recommending Kick makes me view that company with suspicion. This whole thing is really leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
Seems a bit disrespectful to only list the big name professors in the title and shove the PhD student who seemingly actually wrote the pqconnect software (Jonathan D. Levin) into the ohters [sic] category.
The most salient example of that actually happening was with Prigozhin. Still not a full civilian airliner. Collateral damage was limited.

If you really want to hate Russia for this, just remember that sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
I’m interested in migrating over. We have one account in GBP currency, can you handle this too? It’s with wise.com. Do you over 2024 catch up too?
My most used "unique" feture of WezTerm and one of the main reasons I'd struggle to move to any of the alternatives is quick select mode[0] which massively speeds up copying or typing file names, hashes, IDs, etc. from the output of commands.

[0] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/quickselect.html
Everyone who actually works on this stuff, and didn't have ulterior motives in hyping it up to (over)sell it, have been identifying themselves as such and providing context for the hype since the beginning.

The furthest they got before the hype machine took over was introducing the term "stochastic parrot" to popular discourse.
> IMO it is sad that the sort of… anti-establishment side of tech has suddenly become very worried about copyright

It shouldn't be too surprising that anti-establishment folks are more concerned with trillion-dollar companies subsuming and profiting from the work of independent artists, writers, developers, etc., than with individual people taking IP owned by multimillion/billion-dollar companies. Especially when many of the companies in the latter group are infamous for passing only a tiny portion of the money charged onto the people doing the actual creative work.
Prigozhin was shot down when on a commercial flight wasn’t he?
1979 presentation at IBM:

“A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision.”

There are lots of bullshit jobs that we could automate away, AI or no. This is far from a new problem. Our current "AI" solutions promise to do it cheaper, but detecting and dealing with "hallucinations" is turning out to be more expensive than anticipated and it's not at all clear to me that this will be the silver bullet that the likes of Sam Altman claims it will be.

Even if the AI solution makes fewer mistakes, the magnitude of those mistakes matter. The human might make transcription errors with patient data or other annoying but fixable clerical errors, while the AI may be perfect with transcription but make completely sensible sounding but ultimately nonsense diagnosis, with dangerous consequences.
A bit of topic, considering my English isn't good at all, the article title isn't missing an "if" here? I had a hard time reading that.

> A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear [if] YouTube can stop him
That depends on if efficiency is part of the scaling process
Thank you, for sure - feel free to send me an email: adam at evidence.dev
I would have thought the aircraft’s transponder would have been the first clue. I can identify nearly every aircraft over my house right now using a $30 USB dongle, including callsign, airline, flight number, altitude, speed, and bearing.